Hmmmmmm, if only they had a device that caused one to move outdoors and allowed one to exercise as if on a treadmill. Wait I've got it and the device alreadys exists! Its called legs. How about going for a run outside with your feet hitting the ground? This company will not sell a single one of these. This is probably the worst product ever. I can't believe a group of people actually thought this was a good idea to create it.

lame!! this has to be the most absurd invention in a long time.

"This video is no longer available."

Well there goes that fun.

Ummm --- previous commenters apparently are incapable of recognizing "humour."

Note that bikeforest's other projects include a pedal-powered couch.

And I bet the people using it in the video on their site already had the helmets. I like how the mail lady isnt even standing on it.

The blogosphere(god I hate that word) seams to be crumbling in on itself today, with the absence of YouTube. Won't somebody please think of the geeks!

For the video, go here:
http://www.bikeforest.com/tread/index.php

Scroll to the bottom and click the "see it in action" link.

People sure aren't very resourceful these days; youtube has made us lazy.

Hmmm... lets try this one again.... Maybe if I take the workout style of a bicycle and the all the benefits of being on a treadmill and combine them, maybe you'd get something that health clubs call a 'stationary bike'?
They're everywhere...

Thought I wouldn't have any idea what this video is trying to convey since its no longer available.

you guys missed the point. you can exercise AND GET SOMEWHERE WHILE YOURE AT IT!

Genius. No?

To play devil's advocate, this vehicle allows for gearing and uses a freewheel to make walking more efficient, as opposed to a unicycle which really offers no advantage over walking.

So both will keep you from ever getting laid (probably not a concern for those considering these anyway). The treadmill bike is more efficient while the unicycle captures that "circus mystique".

Prediction: not much of a threat to the unicycle market or any other market for that matter.

Next to the video hit the sweet jumps, Scene from Napoleon dynamite w/ the treadmill bike! GREAT STUFF FOR A MONDAY...Oh wait Tuesday. dang

LAME, the treadmill is designed so u didnt have to run outside so why the divice outside. Again LAME

Seriously... was this a real product or not... it'd be nice if the amateur doing the voiceover wouldn't be laughing all the time...

ofmg! you now have the capability to run full speed and still be slower than a normal person walking, and what's this you say? It protects my feet from "contiminants" such as dirt. i'm totally ordering 20

and it only costs you $2,230.

it costs $2,227.56 us (2500 canadian)

I like the part where they are showing the guy getting on the bus with it, except they fade away at the percise moment the handlebars were about to hit both sides of the doorway preventing him from taking it on the bus.

Yeah, looks like a great fit.

What if they added a bicycle mounted to the treadmill, then you exercise while sitting down, and you could take it anywhere!

This whole thing has got to be an elaborate joke, right? Taking it on a bus??? The guy at the end who calls it "practical"???

For every person that posts believing that this bike is created for any reason other than a joke, I want to wrap my balls in razor-wire and then wrap the other end of the wire to a truck as it speeds away.

The Treadmill bike is OLD news, introducing the new Electric Treadmill bike "we'll gurantee you wont lose a pound using it". Get yours for the low low low price of Six Gagillion dollars, shipping and handling extra. Offer void in NYC where you'll be laughed to death if youre seen on this thing.

i couldnt help staring, mouth agape, is sheer stupifaction at this video. this is quite possibly the most idiotic thing i have ever seen in my entire life. wow, just wow.

I'm not sure I follow here. This thing is both a treadmill and a bike. Treadmills are used for in-place walking. Bikes are a mode of transportation designed to avoid walking. With the treadmill bike, you walk. But bikes are supposed to prevent you from needing to walk. With cyclical logic like this as the description of the product, you have to ask yourself: Why does this product exist?

I take it Gizmodo readers aren't any better at reading other comments before they post their own thoughts than are the readers of other sites...I vote that the comment invite system be revamped to include a "trial period" - if you don't exhibit signs of intelligence within the first five comments, you're off the list.

For those who may have missed this - it's a JOKE. Listen to the voiceover, and look at the thing. C'mon, people; my will to live is already weak enough. You don't want my microwave dinner-enhanced blood on your hands, do you?

FOOO SHIZZLLEEE.

stupidest. invention. EVAR.

LOLS OMEGS>!!1

this needs an aol logo slapped on it somewhere.

Well, I certainly didn't take this serious, and I hope others didn't. I found this video quite humorous. I loved the one guy who couldn't keep his lines, but still puncuated on "Treadmill bike" like a pro.

why the hell are there so many new commmenters?

Now you see what happens when you say "send us an email and we'll send you a comments invite."

is this product a joke!?

(Did I pass your Turing test Yossarian?)

Wow. The day the humor died.

I'm such a loser. I didn't realize this was a joke.

FO SHIZZLE!

New posts about the new Segway AND the Treadmill Bike on the same day! Finally there's so many more ways to look dorky while pounding the pavement... and usually I get all of my stares, jeers, and emotional scars by merely Jazzercising down Main St. (the locals hate that). Thanks Giz, for providing all of your readers with more options for lame transportation!

Signed,
Sweatin' to the Oldies

Hilarious.

I like Yossarian's ideas and would like to subscribe to his newsletter.

Looked like a great college project to me. I'd give it an A.

It really does scare me that Giz readers didn't get the joke here.

@dreadsword
"People sure aren't very resourceful these days; youtube has made us lazy."

Not entirely correct. People have always been lazy. Youtube has simply facilitated the process a bit.

As for this item, soda almost shot out of my nose when I heard the "FO SHIZZLE!". Sad to see so many missing the point.

Actually...the whole idea of using electicity to power a device that helps you exercise by running is already absurd...and yet millions of people do it every day.

Parody and sarcasm are completely missed by the drooling idiots who are fad obsessed. The TIME coverage isn't going to help the Giz any.

Prepare for the end, my friends, we've just all become mainstream. The treadmill users are disappointed that the bike isn't fast enough...it's the first sign of the Apocalypse.

Viva la Iconoclasts...and where to we go now?

The only thing that could have made the video funnier would have been if it was in mock-infomercial style, Hosted by a former child actor: order now, just 19.95 + shipping and handling for a 30 trial period. Keep it and pay just $19.95 a week for the rest of your natural life.

Something makes me think this was simply a marketing project by some students at Wilfred Laurier or the University of Waterloo. Nice to see my town on the Giz though.